2 Install MySQL And phpMyAdmin This can all be installed with one single command: apt-get install mysql-server

mysql-client phpmyadmin apache2 You will be asked these questions: New password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword Repeat password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword Web server to reconfigure automatically: <-- apache2 Configure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common? <-- No 3 Install PureFTPd With MySQL Support For Ubuntu 12.10 there is a pre-configured pure-ftpd-mysql package available. In stall it like this: apt-get install pure-ftpd-mysql Then we create an ftp group (ftpgroup) and user (ftpuser) that all our virtual u sers will be mapped to. Replace the group- and userid 2001 with a number that is free on your system: groupadd -g 2001 ftpgroup useradd -u 2001 -s /bin/false -d /bin/null -c "pureftpd user" -g ftpgroup ftpuse r 4 Create The MySQL Database For PureFTPd Now we create a database called pureftpd and a MySQL user named pureftpd which t he PureFTPd daemon will use later on to connect to the pureftpd database: mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE pureftpd; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP ON pureftpd.* TO 'pureftpd'@' localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ftpdpass'; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP ON pureftpd.* TO 'pureftpd'@' localhost.localdomain' IDENTIFIED BY 'ftpdpass'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Replace the string ftpdpass with whatever password you want to use for the MySQL user pureftpd. Still on the MySQL shell, we create the database table we need ( yes, there is only one table!): USE pureftpd; CREATE TABLE ftpd ( User varchar(16) NOT NULL default '', status enum('0','1') NOT NULL default '0', Password varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', Uid varchar(11) NOT NULL default '-1', Gid varchar(11) NOT NULL default '-1', Dir varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', ULBandwidth smallint(5) NOT NULL default '0',

DLBandwidth smallint(5) NOT NULL default '0', comment tinytext NOT NULL, '0', QuotaFiles int(11) NOT NULL default 0, PRIMARY KEY (User), UNIQUE KEY User (User) ) ENGINE=MyISAM; quit; As you may have noticed, with the quit; command we have left the MySQL shell and are back on the Linux shell. BTW, (I'm assuming that the hostname of your ftp server system is server1.exampl e.com) you can access phpMyAdmin under http://server1.example.com/phpmyadmin/ (y ou can also use the IP address instead of server1.example.com) in a browser and log in as the user pureftpd. Then you can have a look at the database. Later on you can use phpMyAdmin to administrate your PureFTPd server. 5 Configure PureFTPd Edit /etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf. It should look like this: cp /etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf /etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf_orig cat /dev/null > /etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf vi /etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf MYSQLSocket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock #MYSQLServer localhost #MYSQLPort 3306 MYSQLUser pureftpd MYSQLPassword ftpdpass MYSQLDatabase pureftpd #MYSQLCrypt md5, cleartext, crypt() or password() - md5 is VERY RECOMMENDABLE up pon cleartext MYSQLCrypt md5 MYSQLGetPW SELECT Password FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L" AND status="1" AND (ip access = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetBandwidthUL SELECT ULBandwidth FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" A ND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetBandwidthDL SELECT DLBandwidth FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" A ND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetQTASZ SELECT QuotaSize FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ip access = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetQTAFS SELECT QuotaFiles FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (i paccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") Make sure that you replace the string ftpdpass with the real password for the My SQL user pureftpd in the line MYSQLPassword! Please note that we use md5 as MYSQ LCrypt method, which means we will store the users' passwords as an MD5 string i n the database which is far more secure than using plain text passwords! Then create the file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/ChrootEveryone which simply contains th e string yes: echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/ChrootEveryone This will make PureFTPd chroot every virtual user in his home directory so he wi ll not be able to browse directories and files outside his home directory.

Also create the file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/CreateHomeDir which again simply contai ns the string yes: echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/CreateHomeDir This will make PureFTPd create a user's home directory when the user logs in and the home directory does not exist yet. Finally create the file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/DontResolve which again simply conta ins the string yes: echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/DontResolve This will make that PureFTPd doesn't look up host names which can significantly speed up connections and reduce bandwidth usage. Afterwards, we restart PureFTPd: /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart 6 Populate The Database And Test To populate the database you can use the MySQL shell: mysql -u root -p USE pureftpd; Now we create the user exampleuser with the status 1 (which means his ftp accoun t is active), the password secret (which will be stored encrypted using MySQL's MD5 function), the UID and GID 2001 (use the userid and groupid of the user/grou p you created at the end of step two!), the home directory /home/www.example.com , an upload and download bandwidth of 100 KB/sec. (kilobytes per second), and a quota of 50 MB: INSERT INTO `ftpd` (`User`, `status`, `Password`, `Uid`, `Gid`, `Dir`, `ULBandwi dth`, `DLBandwidth`, `comment`, `ipaccess`, `QuotaSize`, `QuotaFiles`) VALUES (' exampleuser', '1', MD5('secret'), '2001', '2001', '/home/www.example.com', '100' , '100', '', '*', '50', '0'); quit; Now open your FTP client program on your work station (something like FileZilla, WS_FTP, SmartFTP or gFTP) and try to connect. As hostname you use server1.examp le.com (or the IP address of the system), the username is exampleuser, and the p assword is secret. If you are able to connect - congratulations! If not, something went wrong. Now, if you run ls -l /home you should see that the directory /home/www.example.com (exampleuser's home dire ctory) has been automatically created, and it is owned by ftpuser and ftpgroup ( the user/group we created at the end of step two): root@server1:~# ls -l /home

total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 administrator administrator 4096 Apr 27 11:54 administrator drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Jul 3 22:23 www.example.com root@server1:~#